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How to build a climate friendly city

How to build a climate friendly city

The Climate Question vor 2 Monaten

More than seven bilion of us will be living in cities by 2050. What can mayors do?

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More than seven billion of us are expected to be living in urban
areas by 2050. So what are the world’s great cities doing about
climate change?

Humans are now city creatures – with more than half the world’s
population already living in urban environments, and huge growth
expected in cities in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa during the rest
of the 21st century.

So mayors are on the front line of dealing with climate change –
whether it’s keeping people cool during heatwaves or redesigning
cities to cope with floods.

In this edition of The Climate Question, Host Jordan Dunbar hears
about inspiring solutions from cable cars in Colombia to water
parks in the Netherlands and city gardens in the Philippines.

His guests are Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown in
Sierra Leone and Co-Chair of the C40 Cities Coalition, and Rogier
van den Berg, an architect and urban planner who’s Global
Director at the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Jordan, Yvonne and Rogier also discuss the crucial role that
cities need to play in reducing carbon emissions by making
buildings more energy-efficient and rethinking transport.

Got a question or comment? You can email the team:
theclimatequestion@bbc.com

Producers: Jordan Dunbar, Diane Richardson, Melanie Stewart-Smith
Sound Mix: Dave O'Neill and Tom Brignell Editor: Simon Watts